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Exercise 1-3: Navigating the Drawing Window
Practice using some of the user interface elements of the drawing window.
1. Create a new drawing based on the ANSI A (portrait) -Color Dependent
Plot Styles.dwt
template that comes with AutoCAD.
In AutoCAD, choose File
➪New. In the Select Template dialog box, select the ANSI
A (portrait) -Color Dependent Plot Styles.dwt
template file and
click Open. The drawing templates that come with AutoCAD are located in the
Templates folder at
C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local
Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2008\R17.1\enu
;
substitute
user name with your Windows login name.
Turn to Chapter 2 to find out how to create a new drawing.
2. Click the Model tab and layout tabs to view the contents of each one.
3. Right-click one of the tabs and choose Hide Layout and Model Tabs to toggle the
display for the layout tabs.
To display the tabs again, right-click the Model or Layout button in the status bar
area and choose Display Layout and Model Tabs.
4. View the contents of each of the layouts by clicking the Model and Layout but-
tons in the application window’s status bar; they’re displayed to the right of the
button labeled LWT (as shown in Figure 1-4).
5. Click the Status Bar Menu button to the left of the Clean Screen icon on the appli-
cation status bar (refer to Figure 1-2). Choose Drawing Status Bar. Make sure that
a check mark is next to Drawing Status Bar.
Some of the icons in the status bar tray move to the bottom of the drawing
window along with the controls for annotation scale.
Drawing window title bar
UCS icon
Layout
navigation controls
Model and layout tabs
Drawing window status bar
Drawing window
status bar tray
Info bar menu
Dynamic Input
Tooltips
Crosshairs
Figure 1-3:
An AutoCAD
drawing
window.
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